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1 Gross - Ludwig
| Issuer | Kingdom of Bohemia |
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| Year | 1516-1526 |
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| Composition | Billon (.400 silver) |
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| Obverse lettering | DEI GRATIA REX BOEMIE LUDOVICUS PRIMUS (Translation: By the grace of God, king of Bohemia Ludwig I) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Ludwig II inherited the Bohemian crown at age ten in 1516, and his reign over the kingdom — cut short at Mohács in 1526, where he drowned fleeing the Ottoman rout of his army — lasted precisely a decade. The gross issued under his name was part of a broader Jagiellonian monetary framework that struggled to maintain silver content against the pressures of cheaper Central European mining outputs flooding the market.
The .400 fineness reflects a genuine debasement relative to earlier Bohemian groschen, not a minting anomaly.